What is xenophobia?
The fear of unfamiliar (foreign) things.
If you look this word up in a dictionary, you will find the following definitions of the phobia: fear towards strangers and fear of everything unfamiliar.
Some phobias lead to adverse implications...
As you might have already guessed, the word is of Greek origin. It was combined of two words: xenos, meaning "stranger", and phobos, meaning "fear".
More Info:
www.wikipedia.org
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141 Comments
Gaetano Guttadauro
easy, my father, naturalized in 1940, was interneded in 1942, with 15,000 Italian-Americans as "undersireable", along with Japanese, and including Joe DiMaggio's fathers, then serving in WWII, by FDR's exec order 9066
Today, known as a Trump supporter. Get wise America, make your hated enemies on the basis of fact, not groups.
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Jul 5, 2016 11:13PM
Spencer Payne
Can;t imagine why since we only try to bomb them back to the stone age. How many do you know personally? If you can overcome your bias you could possibly begin a conversation with some. Might change your mind. Then again, might not work for you.........
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Jul 25, 2016 11:20PM
William Laughlin
Neil Hatch President Obama's term in office, his willingness to reach out to foreign governments, his ability to compromise, and his generosity of spirit have done nothing to increase xenophobia. People like Drumpf foment xenophobia. You have just demostrated how little you understand of the world and politics. I challenge you to substantiate how President Obama has added to our national xenophobia. Please use facts. They are they only things that matter. Your feelings, false impressions, and wild imaginings do not count in an intellectual exchange. Throw away your prejudices and prove your point.
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Jul 28, 2016 3:22AM
Ben Totuous
Spencer Payne, yes, as Americans we must imagine how much we would welcome 30 years of proxy wars of our soil. I speak of Afghanistan, where we fought the Soviets in the 80s. Then Bush invaded there in 2002, a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. Hard to imagine they could do anything but hate us. We now have a candidate denouncing an entire religion for the terrorist acts of an extremely relative few of the billion plus worldwide who practice it. Rick Shomin is a racist and irrational hater. Just pity him.
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Jul 26, 2016 3:45AM
Andy Wright
The word xenos is also widely believed to be the origin of the symbol x for the unkown value in algebra
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Jul 22, 2016 4:11PM
Raashid Khan
World is full of different type of people and this difference is the beauty of the world like a garden with 100s of different type flower / plant species.
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Aug 8, 2016 5:31AM
Sara Freeman
Seems to be an outbteak of this recently. Didn't realize it had a fancy name. I just thought it was 'stupidity'!
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Aug 1, 2016 10:55PM
anthonygriffin
Rick Shomin, you can't group a nationality of people together in calling them all "terrorists." It's just the wrong mindset of thinking in today's society.
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Oct 31, 2016 1:30PM
royalsfan
Muslim hatrid for the west is obvious they are a group you can not trust.
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Jul 23, 2016 12:45PM
Dave Mac
Here are facts for you, ISIS is Muslim, almost all terrorism currently happening in the world is done by Radical Muslims, Islam has declared a holy war against the western powers. Any Muslim not activly fighting against Islamic terrorism, is supporting it with is silence.
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Aug 1, 2016 11:53AM
✨KRISTA✨
Was that how🤔 authors did explanations six years ago? Sad...🙄
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Dec 15, 2022 2:58AM
Bank-Robber
So glad I don't have that fear!!!
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Jun 10, 2022 8:23PM
rosemarymee
Terry Abordi, Doesn't seem to extend to his various wives...
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Nov 28, 2021 1:44PM
Roselyn L Prollo
Xenophobia,fear of stranger ,is broad term that may applied to any fear of someone who diff.from us.
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Feb 9, 2021 4:52AM
Player
Conrado De Leon, the original meaning has been corrupted by its use English. The original Greek meaning of Phobos is fear.
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Oct 13, 2020 9:16PM
joycekingsmith
Raashid Khan, what a beautiful thought.
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Jun 28, 2020 10:31PM
Conrado De Leon
ACTUALLY THE USE OF "PHOBOS" IS NOT EXACTLY RIGHT. PEOPLE ARE NOT AFRAID OF ALIENS, THEY SIMPLY DISLIKE SOME OF THEM. i DON'T KNOW THE gREEK WORD FOR "AVERSION" OR "DISLIKE", BUT THE "PHOBIA" IS USED WRONGLY IN MANY OCASSIONS.
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Jun 15, 2020 10:33AM
Helga U. Williams
littledick, Es kommt drauf an!
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May 19, 2020 6:46PM
carlsmith
William Laughlin, Sir I stand behind you 100%.
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Feb 29, 2020 1:01PM
jmcrsmith
why do i answer correctly yet get it wrong when the answer comes up?
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Feb 16, 2020 8:41PM
Teri Gallagan-Horning
I looked this up after I answered the question. According to the Webster dictionary, xenophobia is dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries...but I guess that could be classified as fear since "phobia" is Latin for fear.
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Jul 10, 2019 10:08AM
littledick
A common spelling error. Lightning could lighten up the area. LOL
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Jul 8, 2019 5:35AM
littledick
An interesting word for today's climate. It should be understood that a "phobia" is an irrational phenomenon, meaning outside the realm of reason. We seem to have quite a number of people in our society that appear to be irrational, nicht war?
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Jul 8, 2019 12:39AM
jack patti go
Missed yhis one!
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Jun 20, 2019 2:33PM
Liz Low
williamrlaughlin, This is a game not a podium for politics!
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Jan 24, 2019 1:03PM
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